Device for adjusting cutting-boards.



No. 677,0". Patented lune 25, |90l.

W. S. BEGKETT.

DEVHIEA FUR ADJUSTING CUTTING BOARDS.

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(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT Enron.

W'INFIELD S. BEOKETT, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE vFOR ADJUSTING CUTTING-BOARDS.

SEECZESAEIQN forming part of Letters Patent No.' 677,011, dated June 25,1901.

Application filed October 6, 1900. Serial No. 32,282. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it' may concern:

Be it known that I, WINFIELD S. BECKETT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts,have invented a new and useful Device for Adjusting Cutting-Boards, ofwhich the following is a specication.

My invention relates to devices for adjusting cutting-boards; and it hasfor its object 1o to produce such a device that will be simple,

zo ting-board being shown in dotted lines. Fig.

2 is a plan view of the support closed, and Fig. 3 is a transversesectional view of the same through the pivot.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 indicates the main pieceof my supporting device, and 2 and 3 are the braces for the same. Eachof these pieces is perforated, as shown at Ll, through which is passed arivet 5, by means of which the parts are secured 3o together andpermitted to turn as a pivot for the purpose of adjustment.

The upper end of the mainpiece l is bent at a slight angle above itspivotal point, as shown at 6, and has its tip sharpened, as at 7, forengaging with the under surface of the cutting-board 8. The lower end ofthe main piece is pointed, as shown at 9, for engaging with the floor orother surface upon which the cutting-board and adjusting device are 4osupported. The sharpened lower end of the main piece is preferablyformed by cuttingit off at an angle, the face of which is in a planesubstantially parallel with the plane of the bent portion at theopposite end, whereby the Weight of the board upon the upper end wouldhave a tendency to drive the point or sharpened edge formed by saidbevel down into the support to prevent its slipping.

The upper ends of the braces 2 and 3 are straight and are held closelyto the sides of the main portion by means of the rivet, and the lowerends are bent laterally, as shown at 10, and are cut off on a bevel, soas to form sharpened points for engaging with the support and.preventing slipping.

In using my improved cutting-board support one edge of the board israised up into the inclination which will be the most convenient for theoperator, and the support is placed under the raised edge. The side legsare then swung upon their pivots until their free ends engage with thesurface upon which the support is mounted and the weight of the ,boardis permitted to go upon the top of the main piece to correspond with thenew adjustment. When the support is not in use, the legs can be swungupon their pivots until they are in the same plane with the mainportion, when the device will be substantially dat and will take up butlittle room.

The main portion and the side legs may be formed from any suitablematerial, as bars or rods of steel, and can be made of suitable lengthfor adjusting the angle or inclination of the cutting-board to suit theconvenience of the workmen.

If desired, the support can be made inany desired dimensions, so as toadapt it for supporting other objects than cutting-boards, and I reservethe right to make such changes and alterations as will come within thescope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what l claim as new, anddesireto secure by Letters Patent, iS-p- In a support forcutting-boards, the combination, with three perforated steel rods, theotal point, and a pivot through the perforacentral one of which islonger than the others tion, substantially as described.

and both ends of which are sharpened and I the portion between itspivotal point and the WINFIELD S' BECKETT' upper end bent upwardly, andthe lower porl Witnesses:

tion of each of the other two is bent laterally FLORENCE L. LEE,

at an angle to the main portion below the piv- LEWIS A. CLOUGH.

